The latest bills signed by CA Governor Jerry Brown, as of 10/10/13

Here is a list of the latest bills signed by California Governor Jerry Brown, as of 10/10/13, courtesy of Scott Lay, the publisher of the Nooner, a California Political Newsletter:

SIGNED BILLS

• AB 140 by Assemblymember Roger Dickinson (D-Sacramento) – Undue influence.
• AB 154 by Assemblymember Toni G. Atkins (D-San Diego) – Permits a nurse practitioner, certified nurse-midwife or physician assistant, who completes specified training and complies with specified standardized procedures or protocols, to perform an abortion by aspiration techniques during the first trimester of pregnancy.
• AB 191 by Assemblymember Raul Bocanegra (D-Los Angeles) – CalFresh: categorical eligibility.
• AB 219 by Assemblymember Henry T. Perea (D-Fresno) – Requires health care service plan contracts and health insurance policies issued on or after January 1, 2015, that cover prescribed, orally administered anti-cancer medications to limit an enrollee or insured’s total cost share to no more than $200 per filled prescription, as specified. A signing message can be found here.
• AB 247 by Assemblymember Donald P. Wagner (R-Irvine) – Personal income taxes: voluntary contribution: California Fund for Senior Citizens.
• AB 394 by Assemblymember Mariko Yamada (D-Davis) – Personal income tax: voluntary contributions: Alzheimer’s disease.
• AB 498 by Assemblymember Rocky Chávez (R-Oceanside) – Medi-Cal.
• AB 602 by Assemblymember Mariko Yamada (D-Davis) – Mentally and developmentally disabled persons: reporting abuse.
• AB 620 by Assemblymember Joan Buchanan (D-Alamo) – Health and care facilities: missing patients and participants.
• AB 663 by Assemblymember Jimmy Gomez (D-Northeast Los Angeles) – Care facilities: training requirements.
• AB 849 by Assemblymember Cristina Garcia (D-Bell Gardens) – Protection of victims: address confidentiality.
• AB 980 by Assemblymember Richard Pan (D-Sacramento) – Requires the California Building Standards Commission, in conjunction with the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development, to repeal certain regulations and sections of the California Building Standards Code that treat primary clinics differently depending on whether the clinics provide abortion services.
• AB 1041 by Assemblymember Wesley Chesbro (D-Arcata) – Developmental services: Employment First Policy.
• AB 1202 by Assemblymember Nancy Skinner (D-Berkeley) – Occupational safety and health standards: hazardous drugs.
• AB 1232 by Assemblymember V. Manuel Pérez (D-Coachella) – Developmental services: quality assessment system.
• AB 1286 by Assemblymember Nancy Skinner (D-Berkeley) – Ensures taxpayers can continue to support the California Breast Cancer Research Fund with the check of a box on their state income tax return, by suspending the annual adjustment of the minimum contribution level for this check-off in 2014 and 2015.
• AB 1308 by Assemblymember Susan Bonilla (D-Concord) – Authorizes a midwife to directly obtain supplies and devices, obtain and administer drugs and diagnostic tests, order testing and receive reports that are necessary to his/her practice of midwifery and consistent with his/her scope of practice; expands the disclosures required to be made by a midwife to a prospective client to include the specific procedures that warrant consultation with a physician and surgeon; and makes other correcting and conforming changes.
• SB 126 by Senator Darrell Steinberg (D-Sacramento) – Health care coverage: pervasive developmental disorder or autism.
• SB 345 by Senator Noreen Evans (D-Santa Rosa) – Attorneys: annual membership fees.
• SB 367 by Senator Marty Block (D-San Diego) – Developmental services: regional centers: cultural and linguistic competency.
• SB 402 by Senator Kevin De León (D-Los Angeles) – Requires all general acute care hospitals and special hospitals, that have a perinatal unit by January 1, 2025, to adopt the “Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding,” as adopted by Baby-Friendly USA, per the Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative, or an alternate process adopted by a health care service plan that includes evidenced-based policies and practices and targeted outcomes, or the Model Hospital Policy Recommendations, as defined.
• SB 460 by Senator Fran Pavley (D-Agoura Hills) – Requires the Department of Public Health to include prescribed information regarding environmental health in the California Prenatal Screening patient educational information, and to post that environmental health information on the Department’s website. This bill also requires the Department to send a notice to all distributors of the Prenatal Screening patient educational information that informs them of the change to that information, and encourages obstetrician-gynecologists and midwives to discuss environmental health with their patients.
• SB 468 by Senator Bill Emmerson (R-Redlands) – Developmental services: statewide Self-Determination Program.
• SB 494 by Senator William W. Monning (D-Carmel) – Health care providers.
• SB 555 by Senator Lou Correa (D-Santa Ana) – Developmental services: regional centers: individual program plans and individualized family service plans.

VETOED BILLS

• AB 50 by Assemblymember Richard Pan (D-Sacramento) – Health care coverage: Medi-Cal: eligibility. [VETO MESSAGE]
• AB 174 by Assemblymember Rob Bonta (D-Alameda) – Public school health centers. [VETO MESSAGE]
• AB 477 by Assemblymember Ed Chau (D-Monterey Park) – Elder and dependent adult abuse: mandated reporting. [VETO MESSAGE]
• AB 888 by Assemblymember Roger Dickinson (D-Sacramento) – State Bar of California: enforcement actions. [VETO MESSAGE]
• AB 1231 by Assemblymember V. Manuel Pérez (D-Coachella) – Regional centers: telehealth. [VETO MESSAGE]
• SB 158 by Senator Lou Correa (D-Santa Ana) – Autism services: demonstration program. [VETO MESSAGE]
• SB 582 by Senator Stephen T. Knight (R-Palmdale) – Tax information: administration. [VETO MESSAGE]